ROSA spinosissima, rubra; Var. flore pleno.
Red Thorny Rose; Double-flowered Variety.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Rosa germinibus sub-globosis, glabris: pedunculis hispidis: floribus semi-duplicibus, incarnatis: foliis patentibus: foliolis ovatis, costatis, crenatis: caule et petiolis aculeatissimis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Rose with nearly round seed-buds, smooth. Peduncles hispid. Flowers semi-double, and flesh-coloured. Leaves spreading. Leaflets ovate, ribbed, and notched at the edges. Stem and petioles very prickly.
This fine semi-double Rose is generally known by the appellation of the Double Red Scotch. It is evidently a thorny Rose, and powerfully resembles the spinosissima in most particulars except the flowers, whose pale delicate character reminds us so much of the Indica, that, were a flower detached from the plant, and compared with that ever-blooming species in a confined mode of culture, the resemblance would be found considerable. How or by whom it was first cultivated, we have not been able to learn with any degree of certainty: it must, therefore, with several other unavoidable deficiencies of the same description, pass on till the conclusion of the work, when we shall be better enabled to fill up these little chasms—at the same time that we give a Dissertation on the Genus.
Our figure was made from fine plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames.